Band 3 Stock Management Support OfficerinBirminghaminBirminghamPUBLISHED MON 17 MAR 2025
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a person with stock management experience to join our busy stock team within the Access to Communication and Technology(ACT) Service.
The post-holder will support the provision of equipment within three clinical caseloads relating to Electronic Assistive Technology (EAT): people with severe physical disabilities who may need Environmental Control (EC) or computer access and people with communication and language difficulties who may need Alternative & Augmentative Communication (AAC).
The role will be mostly office based processing and managing equipment but will also involve some deliver and collection of equipment across the West Midlands region and therefore being a car driver is essential.
The post holder will primarily provide stock control functions for Access to Communication and Technology equipment including:
- Making demonstration kit available for booked appointments.
- Processing new equipment for provision to our patients on our equipment management system.
- Decontaminating returned stock.
- Collection of stock no longer needed by our patients.
About us
The main duties of the post holder are as follows:
1. Responsible for monitoring the stock loan equipment on a daily basis, this includes updating the location of any stock on the ACT information systems. This may be as a result of an order, clinical request or technical request following a fault call.
2. Participation in the stock check, this will be at the discretion of the Stock Management Lead.
3. Preparation of stock requested by the clinical and/or technical teams for appointments.
4. Decontamination of returned stock in accordance with Trust policy. Responsible for ensuring the equipment is fit to be returned to stock, identifying when repairs are necessary and raising the appropriate requests for the technical team.
5. Assisting with the enactment of the ACT goods inward procedures. This involves receiving, signing for and accurately identifying received equipment against the orders. Creating unique identifying barcodes and codes, inputting this information into the ACT information systems and storing the equipment appropriately.
6. Liaison with companies to resolve any issues with orders, prices etc. Also to arrange for faulty equipment to be repaired and returned. This will be done with the Stock Management Lead.
7. Collection and delivery of equipment from the local environments of the clients. This will sometimes involve meeting with carers and families of deceased clients and will require the post holder to travel to locations anywhere within the West Midlands region.
8. Arrange for the despatch of equipment via post, courier or personal delivery in line with ACT procedures. This will involve packaging equipment adequately to be safe for transport, contacting the courier companies or liaising with the ACT admin team to arrange for one of the team to deliver.
9. Arranging equipment for ACT training events and transporting it if necessary to location. It may also be required to help set up and dismantle the equipment at the end of the session.
10. Accurately update the ACT information system with stock locations, issue and returned, equipment repairs etc.
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